PROTESTS have continued in northern Syria demanding United Nations action and an end to international silence after the grim discovery of internment camps where women have been brutally tortured by Turkish-backed militia.

Thousands of people displaced from the peaceful canton of Afrin in the semi-autonomous Kurdish enclave known as Rojava took to the streets today to demand justice for the women held in the torture centres.

They marched from the hospital in Afrin to the Berxwedan camp, displaying banners calling for the global community to “hear the screams of Afrin’s women.”